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THE BOOK OF THE PROPHET<br/>
<span class=large>JEREMIAH</span>
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CHAPTER 15
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The Jews shall suffer death and the sword and famine and captivity—They shall be removed into all the kingdoms of the earth—Jerusalem shall be destroyed.
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Then</span> said the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> unto me, Though Moses and Samuel stood before me, <i>yet</i> my mind <i>could</i> not <i>be</i> toward this people: cast <i>them</i> out of my sight, and let them go forth.
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And it shall come to pass, if they say unto thee, Whither shall we go forth?  then thou shalt tell them, Thus saith the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>; Such as <i>are</i> for death, to death; and such as <i>are</i> for the sword, to the sword; and such as <i>are</i> for the famine, to the famine; and such as <i>are</i> for the captivity, to the captivity.
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And I will appoint over them four <sup>a</sup><a href="jer/15/3a" mark="a" type="P" title="HEB destroyers.">kinds</a>, saith the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>: the sword to slay, and the dogs to tear, and the fowls of the heaven, and the beasts of the earth, to <sup>b</sup><a href="jer/15/3b" mark="b" type="A" title="D&C 29: 20.">devour</a> and destroy.
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And I will cause them to be removed into all kingdoms of the earth, because of <sup>a</sup><a href="jer/15/4a" mark="a" type="A" title="2 Kgs. 21: 11.">Manasseh</a> the son of Hezekiah king of Judah, for <i>that</i> which he did in Jerusalem.
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For who shall have pity upon thee, O Jerusalem?  or who shall bemoan thee?  or who shall go aside to ask how thou doest?
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Thou hast forsaken me, saith the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>, thou art gone backward: therefore will I stretch out my hand against thee, and destroy thee; I am weary with repenting.
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And I will <sup>a</sup><a href="jer/15/7a" mark="a" type="E" title="2 Kgs. 24: 3 (3-4); IE scatter them; Jer. 51: 2.">fan</a> them with a fan in the gates of the land; I will <sup>b</sup><a href="jer/15/7b" mark="b" type="A" title="Ezek. 36: 13 (8-15).">bereave</a> <i>them</i> of children, I will destroy my people, <i>since</i> they return not from their ways.
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Their widows are increased to me above the sand of the seas: I have brought upon them against the mother of the young men a spoiler at noonday: I have caused <i>him</i> to fall upon it suddenly, and terrors upon the city.
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She that hath borne seven languisheth: she hath given up the ghost; her sun is gone down while <i>it was</i> yet day: she hath been ashamed and confounded: and the residue of them will I deliver to the sword before their enemies, saith the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>.
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&#182; <sup>a</sup><a href="jer/15/10a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Despair.">Woe</a> is me, my mother, that thou hast borne me a man of <sup>b</sup><a href="jer/15/10b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Strife.">strife</a> and a man of contention to the whole earth!  I have neither lent on usury, nor men have lent to me on <sup>c</sup><a href="jer/15/10c" mark="c" type="B" title="TG Usury.">usury</a>; <i>yet</i> every one of them doth curse me.
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The <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> said, Verily it shall be well with thy remnant; verily I will cause the enemy to entreat thee <i>well</i> in the time of evil and in the time of affliction.
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Shall iron break the northern iron and the steel?
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Thy substance and thy treasures will I give to the spoil without price, and <i>that</i> for all thy sins, even in all thy borders.
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And I will make <i>thee</i> to pass with thine enemies into a <sup>a</sup><a href="jer/15/14a" mark="a" type="A" title="Jer. 16: 13; Jer. 17: 4.">land</a> <i>which</i> thou knowest not: for a fire is kindled in mine anger, <i>which</i> shall burn upon you.
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&#182; O <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>, thou knowest: remember me, and <sup>a</sup><a href="jer/15/15a" mark="a" type="D" title="OR be mindful of me.">visit</a> me, and revenge me of my persecutors; take me not away in thy longsuffering: know that for thy sake I have <sup>b</sup><a href="jer/15/15b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Suffering.">suffered</a> <sup>c</sup><a href="jer/15/15c" mark="c" type="P" title="HEB taunts.">rebuke</a>.
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Thy words were found, and I did <sup>a</sup><a href="jer/15/16a" mark="a" type="A" title="Ezek. 3: 3 (1, 3); Rev. 10: 10 (9-10).">eat</a> them; and thy word was unto me the joy and rejoicing of mine heart: for I am called by thy <sup>b</sup><a href="jer/15/16b" mark="b" type="A" title="D&C 18: 27.">name</a>, O <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> God of hosts.
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I sat not in the assembly of the <sup>a</sup><a href="jer/15/17a" mark="a" type="A" title="Ps. 1: 1; Ps. 26: 4.">mockers</a>, nor rejoiced; I sat alone because of thy hand: for thou hast filled me with indignation.
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Why is my pain perpetual, and my wound incurable, <i>which</i> refuseth to be healed?  wilt thou be altogether unto me as a liar, <i>and as</i> waters <i>that</i> fail?
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&#182; Therefore thus saith the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>, If thou <sup>a</sup><a href="jer/15/19a" mark="a" type="D" title="OR repent.">return</a>, then will I bring thee again, <i>and</i> thou shalt stand before me: and if thou take forth the precious from the vile, thou shalt be as my mouth: let them return unto thee; but return not thou unto them.
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And I will make thee unto this people a <sup>a</sup><a href="jer/15/20a" mark="a" type="P" title="HEB fortified wall of brass.">fenced</a> brasen wall: and they shall fight against thee, but they shall not prevail against thee: for I <i>am</i> with thee to <sup>b</sup><a href="jer/15/20b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Protection, Divine.">save</a> thee and to deliver thee, saith the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>.
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And I will deliver thee out of the hand of the wicked, and I will redeem thee out of the hand of the terrible.
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